Thoughts of an overworked CS student
Last summer I produced IRC and MSN interface plugins for StatusNet. Today, StatusNet 1.0.0 has been released and these plugins are now bundled with it!
Even got a nice mention on their blog: http://status.net/2011/09/30/statusnet-1-0-0-its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-fine
Update – Apparently this is now possible according to Jason Gouger who gave a method in the comments below.
Recently I decided that walking around with my documents and work unencrypted on my Macbook Pro was possibly a bad idea. If it was stolen, the thieves would have access to everything simply by connecting the [...]
Whilst working on my Embedded Systems Advanced OS coursework I ran into an issue whilst trying to define the location/size of my C heap and stack using the scatter-loading description file.
I kept getting the error
Execution region ARM_LIB_HEAP spans beyond 32 bit address space (base 0xc8804060, size 3380625504 bytes)
Turns out that I’d [...]
After installing Windows 7 SP1 (x64) I found that my system would no longer resume from sleep. After having a look through the EVGA forums I found that this is corrected in the latest BIOS update which you can find here:
As most web designers will know, Internet Explorer 7 and older never seem to render anything properly. My most recent gripe has been why IE7 was refusing to show a background image I had defined on an li element.
It turned out that IE7 seems to have a rendering issue where it doesn’t show overflow [...]
Another job for myself as part of the Games Project was to set up automatic building of our master repository branch whenever anyone committed new code. Unfortunately, due to our game being developed for Windows (using Visual Studio) and there being a security restriction stopping us SSH’ing into the machines, I was unable to set [...]
For the University games project unit this year, my group are using Git for version control and trac for project management and bug tracking. It was decided that all members of the group should be emailed upon any commits to the repository. This was easy enough to implement, only requiring the renaming of a sample [...]
One of my most recent assignments for the Introduction to Machine Learning unit has me creating a Naïve Bayes classifier for identifying spam emails. The most recent stage I’ve implemented is the 10-fold cross validation.
10-fold cross validation involves first randomising the order of your [...]
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